Dorcas Hand

Dorcas Hand, MLS, is a retired school librarian from Houston, Texas, who is a co-chair of Students Need Libraries in Houston ISD, a grassroots advocacy effort to return school librarians and libraries to all campuses in Houston Independent School District; this local advocacy work has informed much of her ecosystem thinking. She chaired the ALA Ecosystem Initiative Task Force to write the Ecosystem Toolkit and Continuum and remains a member of ALA’s COLA Ecosystem Subcommittee, presenting on ecosystem topics often.